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** The related ''ComicBook/MarvelsProject'' did the same with a greater focus on the WWII superheroes. It stars the Golden Age Angel, who is retconned to have been inspired to become a hero by Matt Hawk, the ComicBook/TwoGunKid (the most famous Marvel Western hero and time-traveling Avenger), and includes pretty much every superhero from that period, including ones that had yet to reappear in the pages of other books.
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* ''ComicBook/EarthX'' and its two sequel series Universe X and Paradise X are intentional works of pure continuity porn. Set TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture (from the year 1999), the story explains, combines, and wraps up every continuity snarl, dangling plot-thread, and unexplained coincidence the writers could lay their hands on, including characters, dimensions, and devices no one's written about for decades. Fortunately, each series also features InteractiveNarrator characters to keep the readers on top of what they absolutely need to know for the plot, but it's still very likely you'll to spend more time reading Wiki/ThisVeryWiki or Wiki/TheOtherWiki than the books themselves.
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* ''ComicBook/EarthX'' and its two sequel series Universe X and Paradise X are intentional works of pure continuity porn. Set TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture (from the year 1999), the story explains, combines, and wraps up every continuity snarl, dangling plot-thread, and unexplained coincidence the writers could lay their hands on, including characters, dimensions, and devices no one's written about for decades. Fortunately, each series also features InteractiveNarrator characters to keep the readers on top of what they absolutely need to know for the plot, but it's still very likely you'll to spend more time reading Wiki/ThisVeryWiki Website/ThisVeryWiki or Wiki/TheOtherWiki Website/TheOtherWiki than the books themselves.
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* ''Wolverine: Origins'' exists to "fully" detail {{Wolverine}}'s mysterious past, has also been called continuity porn. Note that all of the hinted-at elements of Wolverine's past have already been revealed; ''Origins'' deals with this by making up an entirely new AncientConspiracy and trying to work it in around the edges. At this point, anything dealing with Wolverine's ExpansionPackPast is probably continuity porn by default.
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* ''Wolverine: Origins'' exists to "fully" detail {{Wolverine}}'s ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}'s mysterious past, has also been called continuity porn. Note that all of the hinted-at elements of Wolverine's past have already been revealed; ''Origins'' deals with this by making up an entirely new AncientConspiracy and trying to work it in around the edges. At this point, anything dealing with Wolverine's ExpansionPackPast is probably continuity porn by default.
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* Everything Creator/AlEwing ever touched at Marvel, as he seems to be the living embodiment of the Marvel Wiki. ''Comicbook/MightyAvengers''? Reverenced everything up to freaking ''Comicbook/NextWave''. ''Comicbook/LokiAgentOfAsgard''? It literally caps all the continuity surrounding Loki, but not above referencing stuff as early as Walter Simonson or Avengers #1 from the silver age. etc. It's a testament to his talent that his series are generally perfectly readable without knowing this but be assured he doesn't forget continuity ''ever''.
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* Everything Creator/AlEwing ever touched at Marvel, as he seems to be the living embodiment of the Marvel Wiki. ''Comicbook/MightyAvengers''? Reverenced Referenced everything up to freaking ''Comicbook/NextWave''.''Comicbook/{{Nextwave}}''. ''Comicbook/LokiAgentOfAsgard''? It literally caps all the continuity surrounding Loki, but not above referencing stuff as early as Walter Simonson or Avengers #1 from the silver age. etc. It's a testament to his talent that his series are generally perfectly readable without knowing this but be assured he doesn't forget continuity ''ever''.
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** His ''Comicbook/TheAvengers'' run as a whole also counts. In addition to featuring LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters from across the franchise's history, he also set out to resolve some old [[LeftHanging dangling plot threads]] and {{Aborted Arc}}s from previous writers, such as ''finally'' clearing up what the hell was up with Madame Masque.
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** His ''Comicbook/TheAvengers'' run as a whole also counts. In addition to featuring LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters many characters from across the franchise's history, he also set out to resolve some old [[LeftHanging dangling plot threads]] and {{Aborted Arc}}s from previous writers, such as ''finally'' clearing up what the hell was up with Madame Masque.
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* ''Wolverine: Origins'' exists to "fully" detail {{Wolverine}}'s mysterious past, has also been called continuity porn. Note that all of the hinted-at elements of Wolverine's past have already been revealed; ''Origins'' deals with this by making up an entirely new AncientConspiracy and trying to work it in around the edges. At this point, anything dealing with Wolverine's ExpansionPackPast is probably continuity porn by default.
* LampshadeHanging/parody in an issue of ''ComicBook/SheHulk'', which promised to fix almost all of Marvel's past and future continuity problems. And did, sort of: any appearances by a character you don't like are actually a tourist from another universe cosplaying as that character.
* Not to mention that the entire Dan Slott run of ''She-Hulk'' abounded with often obscure jokes about Marvel continuity -- to the point where they had the law firm with a COMIC BOOK COLLECTION and She-Hulk reads the first issue of... well, her.
* Creator/ChrisClaremont's quasi-trilogy ''Comicbook/XMen: The End'' pulled together tons of old storylines he either [[KudzuPlot left hanging]] or were quashed by [[ExecutiveMeddling editors]] / [[DependingOnTheWriter other writers]], along with a number of others, into a semi-BadFuture story that tried to reconcile the tangle that the X-Books had become.
* The infamous Continuity Xorn escapades. Just who was Xorn ''really'', and what were his actual motivations? Three different writers gave three different takes in order to clean it up but each just got more and more convoluted and complicated until really the best thing to do was just throw it all into the sun.
* Creator/KurtBusiek is fond of continuity, and has proven quite capable of weaving disparate continuity threads into a cohesive (and entertaining) whole.
** ''ComicBook/AvengersForever'' is probably Busiek's most Continuity Pornastic piece of writing. Among other things, it explains how almost every major event in the history of the Avengers -- and the histories of the Avengers in every parallel universe -- was either caused by Immortus or cleaned up by him afterwards [[ThePlan to save the human race from the Time Keepers]]. It also spent an entire issue detailing the history of sometime BigBad Kang the Conqueror. However, because time travel is an important part of the series, and because the story is generally good, it usually manages to get away with it.
** His ''Comicbook/TheAvengers'' run as a whole also counts. In addition to featuring LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters from across the franchise's history, he also set out to resolve some old [[LeftHanging dangling plot threads]] and {{Aborted Arc}}s from previous writers, such as ''finally'' clearing up what the hell was up with Madame Masque.
** An earlier example of Creator/KurtBusiek was ''ComicBook/{{Marvels}}'', a four-issue mini-series that managed to encapsulate the entire early history of Marvel Comics (from World War II to the Death of Gwen Stacy) and present it from a street-level point of view, showing how an average man sees the Marvel Universe.
* Creator/{{Christopher Priest|Comics}}'s ''Comicbook/BlackPanther'' run was basically a celebration of the character's entire published history up to that point, with Priest making sure to incorporate something from pretty much every previous take on the character, even the stuff that wasn't well regarded (such as Creator/JackKirby's run). Priest has said that in hindsight, this was probably part of the reason why [[AcclaimedFlop it didn't sell very well despite being critically acclaimed]].
* Marvel pulled one of these with ''ComicBook/SecretInvasion''. Character derailment, you say? ''Alien mole!'' [[WolverinePublicity Too many of one guy]] to make sense in universe? ''Alien double!'' Character death of your favorite minor character, even though it was a powerful move and strongly affected the rest of the characters? ''Alien doppelganger!''
* ComicBook/SpiderMan' ''Brand New Day'', ''Maximum Clonage'', and a lot of JMS's writing went into heavy continuity nods and switches. And usually by the end a lot was left hanging.
** And still left hanging. ''ComicBook/OneMoreDay''/''Brand New Day'' seems to be going out of their way to avoid continuity porn and ignore the continuity problems that have been created because of the situation.
** Eventually they wrote ''One Moment in Time'', or OMIT, that explained exactly how continuity changed because of OMD. The Wedding Annual, MJ's pregnancy, and, ironically, One More Day itself are the only things in which anything beyond Spidey's marital status was changed.
* ''ComicBook/EarthX'' and its two sequel series Universe X and Paradise X are intentional works of pure continuity porn. Set TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture (from the year 1999), the story explains, combines, and wraps up every continuity snarl, dangling plot-thread, and unexplained coincidence the writers could lay their hands on, including characters, dimensions, and devices no one's written about for decades. Fortunately, each series also features InteractiveNarrator characters to keep the readers on top of what they absolutely need to know for the plot, but it's still very likely you'll to spend more time reading Wiki/ThisVeryWiki or Wiki/TheOtherWiki than the books themselves.
* Everything Creator/AlEwing ever touched at Marvel, as he seems to be the living embodiment of the Marvel Wiki. ''Comicbook/MightyAvengers''? Reverenced everything up to freaking ''Comicbook/NextWave''. ''Comicbook/LokiAgentOfAsgard''? It literally caps all the continuity surrounding Loki, but not above referencing stuff as early as Walter Simonson or Avengers #1 from the silver age. etc. It's a testament to his talent that his series are generally perfectly readable without knowing this but be assured he doesn't forget continuity ''ever''.
* ''Wolverine: Origins'' exists to "fully" detail {{Wolverine}}'s mysterious past, has also been called continuity porn. Note that all of the hinted-at elements of Wolverine's past have already been revealed; ''Origins'' deals with this by making up an entirely new AncientConspiracy and trying to work it in around the edges. At this point, anything dealing with Wolverine's ExpansionPackPast is probably continuity porn by default.
* LampshadeHanging/parody in an issue of ''ComicBook/SheHulk'', which promised to fix almost all of Marvel's past and future continuity problems. And did, sort of: any appearances by a character you don't like are actually a tourist from another universe cosplaying as that character.
* Not to mention that the entire Dan Slott run of ''She-Hulk'' abounded with often obscure jokes about Marvel continuity -- to the point where they had the law firm with a COMIC BOOK COLLECTION and She-Hulk reads the first issue of... well, her.
* Creator/ChrisClaremont's quasi-trilogy ''Comicbook/XMen: The End'' pulled together tons of old storylines he either [[KudzuPlot left hanging]] or were quashed by [[ExecutiveMeddling editors]] / [[DependingOnTheWriter other writers]], along with a number of others, into a semi-BadFuture story that tried to reconcile the tangle that the X-Books had become.
* The infamous Continuity Xorn escapades. Just who was Xorn ''really'', and what were his actual motivations? Three different writers gave three different takes in order to clean it up but each just got more and more convoluted and complicated until really the best thing to do was just throw it all into the sun.
* Creator/KurtBusiek is fond of continuity, and has proven quite capable of weaving disparate continuity threads into a cohesive (and entertaining) whole.
** ''ComicBook/AvengersForever'' is probably Busiek's most Continuity Pornastic piece of writing. Among other things, it explains how almost every major event in the history of the Avengers -- and the histories of the Avengers in every parallel universe -- was either caused by Immortus or cleaned up by him afterwards [[ThePlan to save the human race from the Time Keepers]]. It also spent an entire issue detailing the history of sometime BigBad Kang the Conqueror. However, because time travel is an important part of the series, and because the story is generally good, it usually manages to get away with it.
** His ''Comicbook/TheAvengers'' run as a whole also counts. In addition to featuring LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters from across the franchise's history, he also set out to resolve some old [[LeftHanging dangling plot threads]] and {{Aborted Arc}}s from previous writers, such as ''finally'' clearing up what the hell was up with Madame Masque.
** An earlier example of Creator/KurtBusiek was ''ComicBook/{{Marvels}}'', a four-issue mini-series that managed to encapsulate the entire early history of Marvel Comics (from World War II to the Death of Gwen Stacy) and present it from a street-level point of view, showing how an average man sees the Marvel Universe.
* Creator/{{Christopher Priest|Comics}}'s ''Comicbook/BlackPanther'' run was basically a celebration of the character's entire published history up to that point, with Priest making sure to incorporate something from pretty much every previous take on the character, even the stuff that wasn't well regarded (such as Creator/JackKirby's run). Priest has said that in hindsight, this was probably part of the reason why [[AcclaimedFlop it didn't sell very well despite being critically acclaimed]].
* Marvel pulled one of these with ''ComicBook/SecretInvasion''. Character derailment, you say? ''Alien mole!'' [[WolverinePublicity Too many of one guy]] to make sense in universe? ''Alien double!'' Character death of your favorite minor character, even though it was a powerful move and strongly affected the rest of the characters? ''Alien doppelganger!''
* ComicBook/SpiderMan' ''Brand New Day'', ''Maximum Clonage'', and a lot of JMS's writing went into heavy continuity nods and switches. And usually by the end a lot was left hanging.
** And still left hanging. ''ComicBook/OneMoreDay''/''Brand New Day'' seems to be going out of their way to avoid continuity porn and ignore the continuity problems that have been created because of the situation.
** Eventually they wrote ''One Moment in Time'', or OMIT, that explained exactly how continuity changed because of OMD. The Wedding Annual, MJ's pregnancy, and, ironically, One More Day itself are the only things in which anything beyond Spidey's marital status was changed.
* ''ComicBook/EarthX'' and its two sequel series Universe X and Paradise X are intentional works of pure continuity porn. Set TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture (from the year 1999), the story explains, combines, and wraps up every continuity snarl, dangling plot-thread, and unexplained coincidence the writers could lay their hands on, including characters, dimensions, and devices no one's written about for decades. Fortunately, each series also features InteractiveNarrator characters to keep the readers on top of what they absolutely need to know for the plot, but it's still very likely you'll to spend more time reading Wiki/ThisVeryWiki or Wiki/TheOtherWiki than the books themselves.
* Everything Creator/AlEwing ever touched at Marvel, as he seems to be the living embodiment of the Marvel Wiki. ''Comicbook/MightyAvengers''? Reverenced everything up to freaking ''Comicbook/NextWave''. ''Comicbook/LokiAgentOfAsgard''? It literally caps all the continuity surrounding Loki, but not above referencing stuff as early as Walter Simonson or Avengers #1 from the silver age. etc. It's a testament to his talent that his series are generally perfectly readable without knowing this but be assured he doesn't forget continuity ''ever''.
